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Hour 3 - More of the Same · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, shaka laka, it's our number three. You gotta be kidding, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's our number three. Life is but a beach here
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Speaker 1: pro Bouncy Ball Hour. How do you pick apart the
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Speaker 1: latest reports of Luca Donsik being obsessed with.
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Speaker 2: Hookah and booze more of the same.
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Speaker 1: Also, if that reporting about as many vices is accurate,
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Speaker 1: what does this mean for the MAVs and for Luca
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Speaker 1: going forward? Paul George is podcasting a career on hold
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Speaker 1: right now as the Sixers crash and burn. That story
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Speaker 1: is blank. We'll get to that and a whole lot
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Speaker 1: more right now here it is. We hold it all
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Speaker 1: together in our number three. Another day and more of
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Speaker 1: the same. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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Speaker 3: Buying showb So our lead this hour is from a
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Speaker 3: pro bouncy ball Yeah, not a game, not a game.
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Speaker 1: But a story around it. So the the talk of
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Speaker 1: the NBA. The ratings have been amazing. People are fascinated
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Speaker 1: by change and Luca now a Laker and just a
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Speaker 1: giveaway by the Mavericks. It's almost unprecedented in the modern
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Speaker 1: era that you would just give away a player of
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Speaker 1: that stature and not allow other teams to bid on
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Speaker 1: that player. But it happened, and it's just a wild story.
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Speaker 1: So Dallas continues to circle the drain and every single
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Speaker 1: day there's a new story out which is pretty much
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Speaker 1: rehashing the same storyline that the Dallas basketball team had
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Speaker 1: major issues with Luca, and they involve his use of
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Speaker 1: different substances, his over consumption of food, not working out,
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Speaker 1: not doing the things that are supposed to be done
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Speaker 1: as a pro athlete, a lot of complaining about Luca
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Speaker 1: smoking the hookah and drinking beer, a lot of beer.
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Speaker 2: So if you haven't heard the latest on this, the
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Speaker 2: latest story.
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Speaker 1: Again, it's much of the same that people around the
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Speaker 1: Mavericks who have followed Luca. You know, in the final
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Speaker 1: couple of months with Dallas, they paint a mosaic of
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Speaker 1: a fallen athlete and the story's buried behind the paywall,
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Speaker 1: calling him lazy, saying that despite doing everything they could
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Speaker 1: to help Luca get in shape.
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Speaker 2: He just didn't follow the plan.
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Speaker 1: And they kept mentioning that he's a bit of a
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Speaker 1: social butterfly, and he has quite the palette and he'd
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Speaker 1: be very happy Luca just having a diet of equal
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Speaker 1: parts beer and equal parts hookah. And that has been
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Speaker 1: a point of consternation for the Mavericks, and not just
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Speaker 1: themn Apparently, according to the story I was reading here,
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Speaker 1: a bunch of NBA types. So they say it goes
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Speaker 1: all the way back to when he was in Real
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Speaker 1: Madrid as a teenager and then entered the NBA draft,
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Speaker 1: And so the story sorry predicting that Luca is on
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Speaker 1: the cusp of a basketball apocalypse. That essentially everyone's all
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Speaker 1: excited and they're singing the praises of Luca, but this
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Speaker 1: is not going to end well, and you're heading towards
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Speaker 1: Dante's inferno because of his lifestyle choices. That it is
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Speaker 1: going to be a armageddon for long term success in
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Speaker 1: that he has a shelf life of essentially five years
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Speaker 1: or so that around five years from now, it's all over.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, how do you pick
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Speaker 1: apart the latest reporting of Luka don sick being obsessed
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Speaker 1: with hookah and booze and he's only got about five
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Speaker 1: years left and then everything's going to go compluey. So
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Speaker 1: I've got piano, dirty birds, and the big O, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to talk to the hand, is what we're
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Speaker 1: going to do, because if you don't listen, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to my hand high hand. Yeah, all right, So number
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Speaker 1: I said, numb burn. My first reaction is this is demonic.
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Speaker 1: And I would argue that if you went to the
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Speaker 1: Lakers and said you can trade for Luca.
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Speaker 2: Give up broken down, Anthony Davis.
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Speaker 1: But Luca's only going to play well for five years.
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Speaker 1: Let's say that, reporters, right, Let's say Luca only has
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Speaker 1: five good years left and by the time he gets
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Speaker 1: to about thirty thirty one something like that, it's over.
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Speaker 1: You'd still make the trade, right, You'd rather have five
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Speaker 1: years of Luca playing elite basketball. We're hitting every hookah
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Speaker 1: bar and drinking all the beer he can get his
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Speaker 1: hands on. You take that right now. But I am
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Speaker 1: fascinated by the Mavericks continue continuing to to be on
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Speaker 1: the warpath here, and I get it. I mean they're
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Speaker 1: getting the're getting absolutely cooked because Luca's starting to play
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Speaker 1: better and the Lakers have won a lot of these games,
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Speaker 1: and so they're just getting hammered by by all directions,
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Speaker 1: and so they're fighting back. There's a faction with the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks and and they're they're on the offensive here.
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Speaker 1: They've gone from a defensive posture to an offensive posture,
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Speaker 1: and they're hell bent on dropping a piano on top
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Speaker 1: of the head of Luca, and they want to vaporize him,
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Speaker 1: much like Luca vaporizes that delicious hookah which he loves
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Speaker 1: so much. Now they're bizarrely looking to take credit for
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Speaker 1: the Luca deal, like it's like, wow, he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: bad in five years, is okay, that's five years from now?
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Speaker 1: Right now, it's fine. And it wasn't even a trade. Again,
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Speaker 1: I keep saying trade. It was a silent auction. But
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Speaker 1: they're was only one bidd They traded again, gave away
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Speaker 1: Luca for a player who is older and doesn't even
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Speaker 1: have five good years left in him, and Anthony Davis.
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Speaker 1: But at least Anthony doesn't love hookah the Uni Brown
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Speaker 1: not a big beer guy, I guess, and he does
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Speaker 1: have a VIP card to the trainer's room.
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Speaker 2: So there's that all right now, page two.
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Speaker 1: If this reporting about the many vices is accurate, So
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Speaker 1: what does that mean big picture for the Mavericks and
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Speaker 1: what does that mean for Luca Donsick going forward? So
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Speaker 1: it will start with dowas it means for the Mavericks
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Speaker 1: that the brass there that they are saying, we did
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Speaker 1: a solid for the franchise.
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Speaker 2: We did a solid for the franchise.
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Speaker 1: And it sounds to me like they're doing a carbon
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Speaker 1: copy of a thirty plus.
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Speaker 2: Year old story. Got him maybe forty years old.
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Speaker 1: Right out of the Dirty Birds playbook. It's story time
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Speaker 1: on the Ben Malors Show. So let's go back in
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Speaker 1: the hot top time machine and we'll set the year
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Speaker 1: to the early nineties, the early nineties, a different time,
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Speaker 1: no social media. Bill Clinton was the president, different world.
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Speaker 1: So at that time, former Falcons coach Jerry Glanville. At
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Speaker 1: that time, he was the Falcons coach, and he decided
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Speaker 1: to trade a young quarterback named Brett Farr. Brett Farr
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Speaker 1: would go on to be a Hall.
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Speaker 2: Of Fame quarterback with the Green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 1: And Jerry Glanville for years has defended the decision to
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Speaker 1: trade Brett Favre to Green Bay, saying that while he
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Speaker 1: coached him in Atlanta, Brett Fahr was a raging alcoholic,
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Speaker 1: he couldn't sober him up and sent him. Glenville's argument is,
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Speaker 1: we sent him to a city in green Bay in
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Speaker 1: the famous line where at nine o'clock at night, the
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Speaker 1: only thing that's opened is Chili Joe's. You can get
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Speaker 1: it two ways with or without onions, and that's it.
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Speaker 1: Then Brett fav went on to have a Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame career, and Glanville's argument is, I could have traded
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Speaker 1: him to New York. I could have traded him to
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Speaker 1: the Jets. Brett Favre and nobody, Glanville says, to this
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Speaker 1: day would have known who Brett farav ever was. Now
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Speaker 1: the obvious difference, you know what the difference is, Yes,
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Speaker 1: the obvious difference is the Mavericks if they wanted to
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Speaker 1: completely copy Jerry Glanville with Brett Farb, they would have
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Speaker 1: traded Luca to wear the Utah Jazz, which is the
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Speaker 1: Green Bay equivalent in the NBA. Right, you had said,
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Speaker 1: all right, Luca, he's a fat slob and he drinks
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Speaker 1: too much and he smokes too much. Houkah, So we're
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Speaker 1: gonna help him out. We're gonna send him the Salt
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Speaker 1: Lake and that's it. But instead they send him to
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Speaker 1: La La Land. So if you've got problems with vices
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Speaker 1: in La as they say in Hollywood, these ski slopes
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Speaker 1: are always open in those Hollywood hills. It's always skiing
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood, if you know what I mean. Now, Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles I looked at up. They are a hotbed. I
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Speaker 1: didn't realize this because I'm not a hookah guy, but
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Speaker 1: there are tons of hookah lounges.
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Speaker 2: If you are a hookah enthusiast.
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Speaker 1: They've got rooftop lounges, they've got speak easy hookah bar,
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Speaker 1: they got all kinds. They got hookah Luca, they got
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Speaker 1: all kinds of hookah.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of that, for Luca, that we had given
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Speaker 1: them the nickname Luca the Lemon lemon Luca. But we
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Speaker 1: have to change that. I like this nickname better. I
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Speaker 1: now by the powers invested in me in overnight talk radio,
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Speaker 1: I give Luka Donsick the nickname hookah Luca. Does anyone
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Speaker 1: have a problem, No, no one has. That's a great name, right,
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Speaker 1: Hookah Luca. That's his new nickname, Hookah Luca. Awesome, that's
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Speaker 1: his name on this show. Hookah Luca. That's it. He's
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Speaker 1: got a great ring to it, flows off the tongue.
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Speaker 1: All right, final point. We now go to phil Ladelphia,
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Speaker 1: where the cheese steaks are great, the pretzels are one
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Speaker 1: to fall in, the basketball blows. Podcasting's pretty good. Not anymore. Though.
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Speaker 1: We've learned that podcaster Paul George is taking a break
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Speaker 1: from his main job to focus on his side hustle,
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Speaker 1: you know, the one in the NBA.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not satire.
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Speaker 1: I saw this. I was like, well, it's probably that Sentel.
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Speaker 1: It's probably that Centel. No, that's not so. Pg thirteen.
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Speaker 1: Pg thirteen. That's his code name. We love him because
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Speaker 1: he's no longer a clipper. He said, I want to
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Speaker 1: let this a quote. I want to let the podcast
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Speaker 1: Pee Family. Is there a podcast pe family, I said,
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Speaker 1: I want to let him know that after the latest episode,
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Speaker 1: I plan to take a break from the pod. Paul
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Speaker 1: George said, just to focus on getting my body right,
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Speaker 1: getting mentally right, and you know, help this squad make
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Speaker 1: a push towards our goal, he said, to finish the
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Speaker 1: and and give ourselves a chance to be in contention
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Speaker 1: to compete for a championship. Which you're like, has Paul
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Speaker 1: George been has he been paying attention? Does Does he
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Speaker 1: understand that the Sixers suck? Does he Maybe he thinks
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Speaker 1: they're good and he doesn't realize like they've lost most
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Speaker 1: of these games. Now, Philadelphia did play on Wednesday night.
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Speaker 1: They had a garden party. They had a garden party
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. And against those those Knickerbockers. And while
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Speaker 1: Paul George by George actually played pretty well, played pretty well. Uh,
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Speaker 1: we know what happened.
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Speaker 2: The team from New York won yet again.
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Speaker 1: So Paul George pausing his fledgling podcast career as the
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Speaker 1: Sixers crash and burn. That is blank, So I'll fill
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Speaker 1: in the blank. I jotted down the big oh that
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Speaker 1: Paul George pausing his podcasting as the Sixers crash and
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Speaker 1: burn is the big o at now. I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about Oscar Robertson. I'm talking about obtuse. It's a big word, obtoose.
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Speaker 2: So why does one have to announce they're no longer
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Speaker 2: doing the podcast or they're taking a break.
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Speaker 1: Why not just take a break. It's like, sometimes people
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Speaker 1: will love this show and then I'll say something to
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Speaker 1: piss them off, and they'll say, I am no longer
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Speaker 1: listening to your show. I'm like, I don't listen. I
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Speaker 1: don't care. Like if I go to a restaurant and
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Speaker 1: I like the restaurant and then I stopped going to
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Speaker 1: the restaurant, I don't call the restaurant up, so I'm
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Speaker 1: no longer eating at your restaurant. I just don't go, Like,
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Speaker 1: why does one have to announce I'm not doing the
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Speaker 1: podcast right now? Unless unless he got the tap on
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Speaker 1: the shoulder And somebody for the Sixers is like, dude,
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Speaker 1: you're killing us and you're playing like an absolute turd,
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Speaker 1: and then you go on podcast and it's ridiculous talk
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Speaker 1: about a lack of self awareness without telling me that
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Speaker 1: you have a lack of self awareness, nobody, nobody will
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Speaker 1: will miss it. I don't know anyone that listens to it.
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Speaker 1: Jock podcasts are a dime a dozen. They're almost all
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Speaker 1: the same. They're almost all the same. The Jock podcast
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Speaker 1: podcast P has had more uploads than baskets.
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Speaker 2: For the Sixers. That's an amazing factoid.
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Speaker 1: Despite making fifty million dollars from his side hustle playing
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, he's more focused on his main gig
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Speaker 1: podcast P. The math ain't mathing. But now he's taking
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Speaker 1: a break. It is the Ben Malor Show, and we
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Speaker 1: are hanging out with you, and I did want to
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Speaker 1: pass on. It's one of those things that worth the
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Speaker 1: overnight shift that usually nothing good happens when you do
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Speaker 1: the overnight shift, and there was a pass here in
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Speaker 1: the overnight. One of the great actors pretty much all
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Speaker 1: the big movies when I was a kid, Gene Hackman,
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Speaker 1: was in Gene Hackman has died and just a legend
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood, was found dead. He was living in New
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Speaker 1: Mexico and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and we don't have
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Speaker 1: a lot of details, but it's something went I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You know, obviously, he's he was ninety five. So when
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Speaker 1: you're ninety five, you know you're at that point, but
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Speaker 1: he was found passed away with his wife who was
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Speaker 1: much younger, and also the family family dog. So condolence
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Speaker 1: is there to Gene Hackman. You can go through all
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Speaker 1: of his his body of work, but just an amazing,
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Speaker 1: amazing career back when they actually made original movies and
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Speaker 1: you know, they just it's a golden age. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I say that because those are the movies I grew
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Speaker 1: up on, but you know, I thought they were solid.
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Speaker 1: I think they're better than the movies that came came
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Speaker 1: out recently. But hey, so there you go, Gene Hackman,
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Speaker 1: back to the talk fiesta. Yeah, so this Gene Hackman
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Speaker 1: story broke here overnight Gene Hackman Hollywood Legends, ninety five.
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of people saying something something's not
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Speaker 1: right about that. He his wife, his dog. It was
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Speaker 1: announced here late at night, all checked out at the
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Speaker 1: same time in New Mexico. But rather than focus on that,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that'll come out and the tabloids will be
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, all that stuff that always happens when someone
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Speaker 1: famous dies, although maybe not at that age at ninety five.
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Speaker 1: Favorite Gene Hackman movie because when when I was you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm old, but when I was a kid, he played
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Speaker 1: I think it was Lex Luthor in the I want
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Speaker 1: to say it was like the Christopher Reeve era of Superman,
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Speaker 1: like that era, and he played that. Of course, we're
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Speaker 1: doing a sports show, so Loraina, do you know the
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Speaker 1: famous sports movie that Gene Hackman started. This goes back
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Speaker 1: a number of years.
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Speaker 6: What do you mean the longest yard is running into
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Speaker 6: my brain?
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Speaker 1: But it might but it might be. It might be
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Speaker 1: or water Boy, also a very good sports movie. Lorena,
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Speaker 1: all right, go back to take jail, Go back, go back,
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Speaker 1: take a nap the story, Lorena, what do you mean.
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Speaker 7: Before before I before I talk to you, you know,
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Speaker 7: during during the break, little and asked if you had
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Speaker 7: seen this story about Gene Hackman.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I asked Lorena.
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Speaker 7: I said, do you know who Gene Hackman is?
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Speaker 1: Oh? No, she said, no, Laurder what Ben.
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Speaker 2: You don't watch old movies.
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Speaker 1: No, I've watched by movies. Yeah, all right, Well, there
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Speaker 1: was this basketball movie called Hoosiers. It was kind of
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Speaker 1: a big deal when it came out. When did that
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Speaker 1: movie come out in the eighties, Probably the late eighties.
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Speaker 7: Maybe before I was born, that's for sure, nineteen eighty six.
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Speaker 2: You know, there was a world before you were born.
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Speaker 2: There was actually a world before I was born too, But.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, yeah, it was a very memorable sports when he
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Speaker 1: played the coach in Hoosiers, by a small town basketball
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Speaker 1: team in Indiana where they love basketball. Hoosier State and
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Speaker 1: we won any awards to that, Coop, did you ever
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Speaker 1: meet Gene Hackman? Coop back in the day, You'll pick Gene.
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Speaker 8: Hackman condition and tournament play and not talk about the
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Speaker 8: next step until you climb the one in front of him.
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Speaker 1: Forget about the crowds, the size of the school.
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Speaker 7: They're fancy uniforms and remember what got you here?
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Speaker 1: It is so inspirational.
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Speaker 7: Sorryment jail, uh uh No, I'd never.
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Speaker 1: Gotten to Gene Hackman. Do you have a favorite?
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Speaker 2: You're you're younger than I am, but do you have
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Speaker 2: a favorite?
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Speaker 1: Gene any Gene Hackman and he was in like the
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Speaker 1: young Frankenstein. It's like a million years old, I mean got.
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Speaker 7: Well, see, yeah, I feel like I'm kind of like
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Speaker 7: biased because there was only a few movies that were
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Speaker 7: from my generation.
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Speaker 1: I get Shorty or something like that.
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Speaker 7: No, the Royal Tannebaumbs, oh okay, all right, yeah, and
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Speaker 7: then Enemy of the State was also awesome.
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Speaker 1: Got you all right? Well, hey, uh if you're depends
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Speaker 1: how old you are. I mean, like Lorraina didn't even
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Speaker 1: know Gene Hackman was. But that's the power of celebrity.
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Speaker 1: This guy's one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and
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Speaker 1: then how fast you go away? And he's been retired
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Speaker 1: for a number of years, and because you know, it's
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Speaker 1: his nineties and now he's dead. But Gene Hackman, all right,
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Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. It is the Ben Mahllor Show.
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Speaker 1: need to pay off the Mallar riddle of the day
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Speaker 1: before we get to the calls. Otherwise people will scream
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Speaker 1: at me and call me mean names and be complete schmucks.
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Speaker 1: So coach Ben Johnson says he would sacrifice his blank
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Speaker 1: for the Bears to win ten Super Bowls. All right,
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Speaker 1: that is the question. What is the answer. Let's see
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Speaker 1: do you think anyone in the Mallard militia knows the answer?
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Speaker 1: Probably not right. Let's see page down, page down. Uh
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Speaker 1: can't read that on the air. Well. A lot of
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Speaker 1: wild answers here. Let's see there anything I can check
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Speaker 1: out here. Miguel on fire, got it right? Who else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Page down? Fergduck says his two years
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Speaker 1: of free road hazard protection from tire Rack. What else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Bobcats says, hey, what about gene Hackman?
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Speaker 1: In unforgiven a great Western see page down? Can't there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of gene Hackman takes not
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Speaker 1: a lot of answers. I can read what else do
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Speaker 1: we have? Page down?
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Speaker 2: His goat head from Doc Mike. There is that.
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Speaker 1: I forty in, says Ben Johnson would sacrifice his father's
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Speaker 1: playboy stash for the Bears to win ten Super Bowls.
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Speaker 1: Timothy from Northern Kentucky says the Bears coach would sacrifice
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Speaker 1: his beef tallow stockpile. Lady Sideburns says he would sacrifice
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Speaker 1: his blank blank. That's what he said. I can't read
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Speaker 1: that full refrigerator full of pickles from King Roy.
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Speaker 2: That's the stuff of nightmares right there.
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Speaker 1: Rory the King alf the alien opiner, his custom made
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Speaker 1: skis he would give that up. I can't can't say that.
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Speaker 1: When mister Irrigation says he will sacrifice his blank blank
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Speaker 1: to win ten Super bowls, Ben Johnson would he said
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Speaker 1: something about BP said something about Jerry Jones and Gloryhole Milkman.
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Speaker 1: Mike says, rest in peace, coach Norman Dale. Let's see
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Speaker 1: that's the name of the coach. There Arena?
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Speaker 2: Who else?
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Speaker 1: Do you? I have page down? All right, Lorena? Do
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Speaker 1: you have an It's not as pet parrot just by
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Speaker 1: JT the Wingman. Do you have an answer? Do you
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Speaker 1: have an answer?
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Speaker 6: Does this mean I'm officially out of jail?
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Speaker 1: Ben?
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Speaker 2: Only for this, only for this, all right?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think he sacrificed his mother's goat.
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Speaker 1: His mother's goat. Is is that correct? Ben Johnson told
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Speaker 1: a barstool podcast asked that he would sacrifice both of
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Speaker 1: his testicles for the Bears to Win's to the testicles,
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, NFL coach, willing to give away his balls,
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Speaker 1: No balls for you. Actually you can have the balls
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Speaker 1: there you go. Can I see your balls, sir? I'd
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Speaker 1: like to see Nick says the best gene hacking movie
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Speaker 1: Mississippi Burning. Bill says, Hinkle field House Hoosier's respect from
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Speaker 1: from Bill, mister nice guy, with a gift of gene
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Speaker 1: Ackman's greatest performance.
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Speaker 2: So the boys celebrating gene Hackman.
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Speaker 1: We'll take some calls though, and we do have ask
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Speaker 1: Ben coming up here momentary Milkman Mike is cashing a
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Speaker 1: golden ticket. Hello Milkman, Mike, Welcome, I gonna cats.
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna good.
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Speaker 9: Mile High morning. Everybody hates thof I want to thank
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Speaker 9: you guys for nominating me for Filling of the Year.
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Speaker 9: It's an honor to be the first non employee to
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Speaker 9: be up for that award. Was I was rather shocked
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Speaker 9: about that. I was actually going to call about something else.
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Speaker 9: But now with this Gene Hackman story breaking. I was
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Speaker 9: born and raised in Indiana, and the year they came
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Speaker 9: in to film that movie, my dad's job actually transferred
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Speaker 9: us out to Kansas City. Uh. And they actually were
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Speaker 9: looking at my hometown as one of the finals for
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Speaker 9: the town scenes for that movie, and they ended up
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Speaker 9: doing our neighbor town where I've got a bunch of
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Speaker 9: friends that still live there to this day.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 9: And I remember them sending me mail telling me they
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Speaker 9: were filming a documentary about that movie and they got
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Speaker 9: to meet Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper and were some
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Speaker 9: of the extras in that movie. Uh. And then we
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Speaker 9: were we moved back that next year and actually got
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Speaker 9: to meet some of the actors at a preview of
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Speaker 9: the movie. Uh, when my dad's business got some pre
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Speaker 9: tickets to an advanced showing. So that's always been a real,
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Speaker 9: real close movie in my heart. And it's Chad here
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Speaker 9: that he passed away.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, well said Milkman. We learned about behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes in the life and times of Milkman. Mike,
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Speaker 1: what almost was? What almost was?
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Speaker 2: Uh, thank you milk Man for sharing that story.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Tuna in Laguna. Great name, it's a
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Speaker 1: good name.
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Speaker 2: Tune in Laguna. That's solid name. Hello Tuna.
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Speaker 9: What's up man. We've got a big poker tournament at
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Speaker 9: the bike come up in this week.
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Speaker 10: Maybe Coop will be there, but a runaway jury.
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Speaker 9: Great Hackman movie, super undergraded. Thank you, by the way.
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Speaker 10: From the nomination as cannon fodder for a new Caller
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Speaker 10: of the Year, considering you nominated every single named color
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Speaker 10: in the history of the planet, that's Mojo rising, But
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Speaker 10: we appreciate the cannons.
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Speaker 1: Well, that is incorrect. We did not nominate everyone. We
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Speaker 1: only nominated ninety pople.
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Speaker 9: Well, who was the one percent? This is the next question.
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Speaker 10: As for Luca, the renters are finally back.
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Speaker 9: And I love it.
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Speaker 4: The excuse that I will be fat and drunk in
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Speaker 4: five years, or that Nico said we will all be
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Speaker 4: fat and drunk.
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Speaker 9: In five years.
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Speaker 10: Has Nico not learned anything about that? I mean, Blonnie
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Speaker 10: debuks and our vetus a Bonus taught us this many
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Speaker 10: years ago, many moves.
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Speaker 1: This is euro style Yogic rides the horses.
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Speaker 4: Luca smokes the hoogahs.
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Speaker 10: All the Eastern Blockers are.
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Speaker 9: Degenerates and this is how they ball.
28:41
Speaker 10: And you said it a few nights ago, would.
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Speaker 4: See it's the workout guy versus non workout guys. The
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Speaker 4: workout guy hates a non workout guy more than anybody
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Speaker 4: because non workout guy can just roll into the gym
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Speaker 4: at twelve pm. He gets all the girls. What workout
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Speaker 4: guy has to be there at four am and do
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Speaker 4: all the grinding.
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Speaker 9: And he was just disgusted by it. This is just
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Speaker 9: how the Euros do it.
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Speaker 8: They smoke the hukah.
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Speaker 5: They like to play like you.
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Speaker 1: Said, no, true, you're you're. I love that you're you're
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Speaker 1: quoting one of my favorite people me. I love that, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it is true. I mean, Nico Harrison is a
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Speaker 1: he's a workout dude. He's a jim guy. He's a
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Speaker 1: guy that's worried about all the different things. You know,
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Speaker 1: you work out a lot, your your balanced diet, you know.
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Speaker 1: And he sees Luca and it makes him just disgusted.
29:30
Speaker 1: It's just like it's like, what do you what are
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Speaker 1: you doing? I mean, you're not living life you're supposed to.
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Speaker 10: This is this is just the second home.
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Speaker 9: I mean, this is this is I mean it's gonna
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Speaker 9: be great.
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Speaker 10: And who cares to me in ten years is gonna
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Speaker 10: be fat. We're all gonna beat ten years.
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Speaker 11: So who gives a rat ass?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, the funny the funny thing is tune in
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Speaker 1: La is that Nico.
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Speaker 2: Harrison won't even be in the NBA five years from now.
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Speaker 1: That's a lake. I know. You should have a lifetime
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Speaker 1: you should have a lifetime employment with the Lakers. After this,
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Speaker 1: I'll see Cooper at the big All right, all right,
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Speaker 1: go away, there's two in Laguda. Let's say hello to
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Speaker 1: Eeny Meenie Money most Steven Manhattan, Hello Stebo in Manhattan.
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Speaker 9: Welcome, uh seven ups.
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Speaker 8: Luca doesn't like the gym ben Distinguished Panel expanding audience
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Speaker 8: and I'll take cold tonight if he's won. But first
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Speaker 8: let's get the look alikes out of the way, Rachel Maddow,
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Speaker 8: Mattow and Buddy Holly. Now, if you want to have
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Speaker 8: a little gasket at Steve, people want to call in
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Speaker 8: and answering questions, you go right ahead.
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Speaker 11: And I mean, I said seven ups, but Hackman was
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Speaker 11: not in seven ups. He was in the French connection.
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Speaker 11: But when people feel like there's almost a xerox copy
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Speaker 11: of boat.
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Speaker 1: Movies, and.
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Speaker 9: Listen, Luca does not have to go to the gym.
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Speaker 11: Okay, because if you watch Luca play, his first move
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Speaker 11: to the basket is an elbow.
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Speaker 8: To the chest of the defending player.
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Speaker 11: Why is he to go to the gym for that?
31:01
Speaker 11: And let's remember Babe Ruth, you know, was eating hot
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Speaker 11: dogs and drinking beer right now.
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Speaker 1: Well baby Ruth though, but Steve, Babe Ruth was in
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Speaker 1: shape until the Bait Ruth that we know we see
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Speaker 1: photos of the drawings of he was older. But when
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Speaker 1: he was young, he was in shape. When he was
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Speaker 1: played for the Red Sox and early with the Yankees,
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Speaker 1: he was in shape.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, he was a beast.
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Speaker 11: The bait was a beast. The flat out beast. Hey,
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Speaker 11: come on, got party all night and you come in
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Speaker 11: here five.
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Speaker 8: Hundred foot home runs the next day.
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Speaker 12: Now, you brought up a lot of things today, like
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Speaker 12: the hygiene of the players and the players complaining about
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Speaker 12: the smell. But there's something the NFL players have a
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Speaker 12: preference for a certain type of flight attendant too.
31:41
Speaker 9: They got to hit that.
31:43
Speaker 11: I mean, I know when the Jets, I mean to me,
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Speaker 11: you know, I'm just in the sports, you know, for
31:46
Speaker 11: the game I just went to London.
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Speaker 8: They took one hundred thousand rolls of toilet paper with
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Speaker 8: them when they went there. I mean, that's like a
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Speaker 8: cargo plane you're flying on.
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Speaker 9: And who was on that plane?
31:57
Speaker 8: I mean, god zillah, I mean, who could be on
31:59
Speaker 8: that plane?
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Speaker 1: Hundred thousand? They were planning on having dysentery when they
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Speaker 1: got to England.
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Speaker 11: They were, yeah, well, let's let's face it.
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Speaker 9: You got fifty guys who are like, let's they have
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Speaker 9: a college.
32:12
Speaker 11: Mentality, even if they're in their twenties and thirties, and
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Speaker 11: they don't know what the word no is because no
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Speaker 11: one uses it with them.
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Speaker 8: And I'd like to tell you too, listen, this is
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Speaker 8: good for you.
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Speaker 11: W ABC Radio has a lot of openings. Now there's
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Speaker 11: like half the people there. We all running for office.
32:30
Speaker 11: Kurtis Lee was running for mayor.
32:31
Speaker 1: Publicity stunt.
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Speaker 11: Frank Moronod's running for city council in New York City.
32:37
Speaker 11: Anthony I call him Tony hot Dog. Anthony Wien is
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Speaker 11: running for city council too.
32:42
Speaker 8: Let's say, you guys have to get something goal with
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Speaker 8: w ABC radio.
32:46
Speaker 2: So you think I should leave you? Are you my advisor?
32:49
Speaker 1: Now, Steve, you think I should leave Fox Sports Radio
32:51
Speaker 1: and go do a local show and Manhattan and that's
32:53
Speaker 1: a political station, right, that's talk, that's political talk, right.
32:57
Speaker 8: They do political, but they also have music, greatdio on
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Speaker 8: the weekends. Up.
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Speaker 9: I mean, just I mean, I'm just saying it because
33:05
Speaker 9: you can.
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Speaker 1: I can live with my brother. I could. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: he won't mind me moving in with him. And there
33:11
Speaker 1: you go. And that's all I do.
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Speaker 9: I don't want you know, I don't want you to
33:14
Speaker 9: move to New York City.
33:16
Speaker 1: Just do I'll just do the show from l A.
33:18
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm sure they'll love that. Why not?
33:20
Speaker 1: All right, call him up, tell them we'll do it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll do.
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Speaker 11: I'll mention it but don't don't but don't mention mine.
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Speaker 1: No, I won't mention your now because you're probably damn yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've been to the I have been to
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Speaker 1: the W A b C studios there. My one of
33:37
Speaker 1: my old bosses used to run that place back in
33:39
Speaker 1: the back in the day. I don't know if they're
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Speaker 1: the same. They had studios right over Madison Square Garden.
33:44
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool and the right up ten. Yeah,
33:47
Speaker 1: but they moved.
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Speaker 9: They moved out of there because.
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Speaker 1: Because uh, it's expensive to rent space over Madison Square Garden.
33:57
Speaker 1: I would say that's probably when they moved. All right,
33:58
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Speaker 1: reading of the question. All right, JT. The Wingman would
35:17
Speaker 1: like to know, Hi, JT.
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Speaker 7: Other than the Earth, what's your favorite planet in our
35:21
Speaker 7: Solar system?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? The favorite planet? I would go Mars because I
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Speaker 1: think that in my lifetime there'll be people on Mars,
35:30
Speaker 1: so I think that's kind of cool. So I think
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Speaker 1: that's the one they say is available for life, you
35:38
Speaker 1: know whoever they are, So I'm gonna go Mars. I
35:40
Speaker 1: think Mars.
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Speaker 2: When I was a kid, it was Jupiter because I
35:42
Speaker 2: was stupider.
35:43
Speaker 1: But now I like Mars. What about you, Greta.
35:46
Speaker 6: That's really funny, Ben I'm a sailor moon fan, so
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Speaker 6: my preference of moons and stuff goes off of the
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Speaker 6: sailor Scouts, and sailor Jupiter and Sailor Neptune were actually
35:57
Speaker 6: my favorites.
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Speaker 1: All right, what about you?
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Speaker 7: I think I'm gonna go with Venus because it has
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Speaker 7: like a cool cloud system and it's also the brightest,
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Speaker 7: like one when you look up into the sky.
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Speaker 1: How many moves is Venus? I have no idea, not enough,
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Speaker 1: not enough? What is next? What is next? Here we go,
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Speaker 1: let's see what's next? Ask Ben? All right, Tony in
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Speaker 1: the bay, Hi, Tony.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Danny, he wanted me to ask this.
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Speaker 1: He called in for this.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he said, would you rather have your eyes glow
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Speaker 7: like stop lights or have smoke slash steam come out
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Speaker 7: of your nose and mouth every time you breathe?
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Speaker 1: So I've never had the eye thing. I think in
36:43
Speaker 1: the winter time, when you go to a place where's
36:44
Speaker 1: really cold, you do anytime you breathe. There's you see
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Speaker 1: what that's like. And I don't think that's that bad.
36:52
Speaker 1: That would be weird if it wasn't cold, But the
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Speaker 1: eye thing would be really awkward. So I'd go breathing
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Speaker 1: what about.
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Speaker 6: You, Lorata, I thought you were gonna people wanted to
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Speaker 6: have my eyes glued shut. I think that I'd prefer
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Speaker 6: that over the other two.
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Speaker 1: Well, the listeners might have your mouth shut, but not
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Speaker 1: what about you? Come with you? Ben?
37:12
Speaker 7: I think the stoplight eyes glowing thing that could be
37:15
Speaker 7: seen as demonic, and I mean, I know the smoke
37:18
Speaker 7: and the steam coming out is also demonic, but I
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Speaker 7: just think, like you know, people could also see it
37:23
Speaker 7: as like being like kind of like a dragon, and
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Speaker 7: people love the dragon.
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Speaker 1: Well he's just the key to that.
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Speaker 2: Is just be where it's cold, and then people just think,
37:30
Speaker 2: well you're cold.
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Speaker 1: All right. There you go, that's it, there you go,
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Speaker 1: all right, what is next? It's ask Ben? Your questions
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Speaker 1: are answered.
37:37
Speaker 7: Cowboy Killer would like to know what is your favorite
37:39
Speaker 7: fast food burger of all time?
37:43
Speaker 1: Favorite fast food burger? So back in the day, I
37:45
Speaker 1: had a rotation. I had Carl's Junior, which is parties
37:49
Speaker 1: if you're east of the Mississippi, in and out burger,
37:54
Speaker 1: and there I've done the five guys thing. I guess
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Speaker 1: the cliche thing would be in and out, But I
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Speaker 1: love that six dollars burger when it came out I
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Speaker 1: don't even know if they still have it. Carls Junior,
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Speaker 1: that was my go to back in the day. What
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Speaker 1: about you, Lrena nothing really, you're a vegan, you know,
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Speaker 1: like you don't eat meat. Huh cool? Are you throwing
38:16
Speaker 1: a tantrum right now though? No, I'm just doing what
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Speaker 1: is told with me. Oh see the guy? Okay?
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Speaker 8: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Karen k back in the same Uh. Sorry, that's my
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Speaker 1: train of thought. Burger favorite burger of all time. Everyone's
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Speaker 1: just in and out what someone else?
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Speaker 7: Well, so I would say in the past, it was
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Speaker 7: Carls Junior had. It was like a limited time thing.
38:46
Speaker 7: They brought it back like every like years two.
38:49
Speaker 1: But they had a.
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Speaker 7: Pulled pork burger. I don't know if you remember that one.
38:54
Speaker 7: That one was delicious. And then also the uh the
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Speaker 7: one with the onion rings, the Western bacon, oh.
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Speaker 1: Western bacon. Yeah, last week that was great. What's next?
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Speaker 1: It's ask Ben and Coop not Lareda. What's next?
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Speaker 7: Somebody named Chicago Bears twenty four wants to know what
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Speaker 7: kind of breakfast food is your favorite?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pancakes, waffles. I'm not a big breakfast guy, but
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Speaker 1: I always go pancakes or I Love, What is it like?
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Speaker 1: Hash hornby Pash, What about you? Coop? French shows, Lareda
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Speaker 1: good answer, Larada, good answer. Big money, big money,